Triangle Fire: See You in the Streets

Triangle Fire: See You in the Streets

A Talk by Ruth Sergel and Nick SalvatoreIn partnership with the Center Jewish History and the Jewish Studies Program of Cornell University

Presentation and discussion with author/artist Ruth Sergel and Cornell Professor Nick Salvatore. In its day, the worst industrial disaster in New York history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, spurred labor organizers and others to enact progressive legislation. A hundred years later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire is inspiring a new generation of activists to organize against sweatshops on a global scale. Learn about how Lower East Side Jewish and Italian immigrants lived and worked together in 1911. Hear about the annual commemoration that honors the loss and empowers the living through the memorial act of sidewalk “CHALK.”